Phoebe Judson


Phoebe Goodell Judson was an American pioneer and author. Along with her husband, Holden Judson, she founded the city of Lynden, Washington. In 1886 she started the Northwest Normal School, which would become Western Washington University.

Born Phoebe Newton Goodell on October 25, 1831, Judson was born in Ancaster, Canada, the second eldest of eleven children with her twin sister Mary Weeks Goodell, and named after her fathers sister, Phebe Goodell. Her parents were Jotham Weeks J. W. Goodell, a Presbyterian minister descended from British colonists, and Anna Glenning Annie Bacheler. In 1837 her family emigrated to Vermilion, Ohio, where she and her siblings were raised.

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